I have bought cars from north to south and east to west,and I live in the northern salt belt,I SHOULD know how cars rust up here,and I have relatives that live in the extreme south and I have bought cars from the south and have seen how they rust..I made a BLANKET statement on how a TYPICAL metal bodied car will rust,NOT a delorean,I have yet to see a Delorean from the sunbelt with a rusted out frame unless it was stored on a beach property.I can say for a fact that 99% of deloreans with rotted frames come from the salt belt states or at least were driven for a while in the northern salt belt states.I am talking extreme rusting NOT surface rust.I stand by my words,the northern METAL bodied cars rust from the bottom up,the sunbelt cars rust from the top down.Look at any project car on ebay,from the north and you will see what I am talking about,look at project cars from the sunbelt states and you will see rot from the top down.I Know it freaked me out when I first went to lower Florida back in 1980,and saw muscle cars there with perfect bodies but rust in the upper areas,and up here in Connecticut,the same Musclecars were rust buckets.Today people in Cuba drive around with old American cars from the 1950's,that still have no lower rust.Granted any car will become a full rustbucket from top to bottom(or bottom to top),if exposed to bad elements for a long enough period of time.I had a ford wagon at one time that was a total rust bucket,yet all the upper parts of the car were fine.When my Brother was living in W.P. Beach Florida,he had a 59 T-Bird (orignal to Florida)that the frame and all lower areas were mint yet the cowl was rusted,the upper doors were rusted the trunk lid and hood were rusted,but all the floor pans were like new etc,that is just typical of the sun belt states. Claude --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Soma576@... wrote: > > > > Claude, > > Unless you have empirical data to back this wild claim up, please refrain > from posting blanket statements about the condition of a car based on where it > resides. Everyone knows you can find rusty cars just about anywhere. It's > ludicrous to suggest you can take one look at a rusty car and know where it > came from - especially a DeLorean where the under-carriage is the only thing > that rusts. > > I'm positive that leaving a DeLorean out anywhere in the Midwest during the > summer will bake the interior just like you say it does in the South. > > Andy To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:dmcnews-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:dmcnews-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/